Zelenskyy explained, “I told him that if he gave us the weapons we need and stopped supporting Putin, we would let him build Trump-branded hotels and other Trump-branded buildings in Ukraine’s ten largest cities, as well as Trump golf courses in the countryside. He was quite excited.”   read more

Defiant as ever, journalist Lubna Hussein entered the courtroom on Monday in Khartoum wearing the same outfit that got her into trouble with Sudan’s Islamic government: pants. Hussein was arrested in July for wearing trousers in public, which is c...   read more

Going by the conventional definition of unemployment, the jobless rate in the U.S. stood at 9.7% in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But this figure only includes out-of-work Americans who have sought employment within the last...   read more

Growing success by Taliban forces against Western coalition tanks cannot be completely attributed to Iran’s covert assistance to insurgents in Afghanistan, but also to the United States’ earlier support for Mujahedeen fighters in the 1980s, accord...   read more

How exactly is a child supposed to do their homework when they don’t even have a home at the end of the school day? That’s the problem one million school children now face in the United States, according to data collected by the National Associati...   read more

No matter how many times Wall Street gets zapped by risky investment schemes, it seemingly has no limit for sticking its finger back into the light socket…and plugging in our fingers as well. Last year’s financial collapse triggered in large part ...   read more

PhD student Nikolas Sarris was reviewing digital reproductions of ancient manuscripts in Egypt’s St. Catherine’s Monastery when he made a startling discovery: a fragment of the world’s oldest Bible hidden beneath the binding of an 18th-century boo...   read more

Although the two countries still have not resolved the Armenian genocide issue dating back to the early 20th century, Turkey and Armenia announced last week they are working on establishing formal relations for the first time ever. After a year of...   read more

By the end of this month, when its fiscal year ends, the U.S. Postal Service will have lost $7 billion in 2008-2009, and it will need a loan from the U.S. Treasury just to pay for health benefits for retired postal workers. USPS’s cash on hand, wh...   read more

A key fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s, Alan D. Solomont has been a major player in Democratic Party politics since the 1980s, while amassing a fortune in the nursing home industry and contributing millions to a variety of philanthropic cau...   read more

Gauging the plight of the unemployed entails more than just examining statistics. According to a survey of those looking for work conducted by Rutgers University, the numbers alone paint a bleak picture, but once the personal feelings of the joble...   read more

When an investment market is worth almost $600 trillion, banks are going to spend heavily to try and keep federal regulators from touching it. That’s what five commercial banks—JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Cit...   read more

While former Attorney General John Ashcroft has insisted he had no personal involvement, or liability, in the matter, a federal appeals court in San Francisco thought otherwise in an anger-tinged ruling announced on Friday. Two members of the thre...   read more

For the first time in many presidential administrations, President Barack Obama has agreed to publish the names of almost all visitors to the White House. Under the new policy, visitors ranging from tourists to business leaders will have their nam...   read more

Three churches in Phoenix are suing the city over its anti-noise ordinance that has prevented clergy from ringing church bells. At first the churches defied the local law by ringing the bells, some as often as every hour on the hour from 8 am to 8...   read more

C. Steven McGann, a longtime member of the Foreign Service whose work has spanned from Africa to South Asia, received his first ambassadorship in being selected to be the United States’ top envoy to Fiji, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Tonga, and Nauru. He ass...   read more

“Death panels” are already a reality in California, according to the state’s nurses union, which argues that insurance companies are routinely rejecting medical care for patients, leading to unnecessary suffering and in some cases death.   A rev...   read more